The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-367 – Matt Dunlap – BQ  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4367.mp3] Link epi4367.mp3 MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - http://www.marathonbq.com/qualify-for-the-boston-marathon-in-14-weeks/ Hello my friends, and welcome to episode 4-367 th3e new summer, of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Here we are in June.  Today we are going to chat with Matt who qualified for Boston recently.  Not to be entirely self-promotional, but he used the Marathon BQ plan from my book, “Marathon BQ – how to qualify for Boston in 14 weeks with a full time job and a family” that recounts my own journey to a Boston qualifier.  It fascinates me to listen to these folks who have run the plan and qualified.  It’s wonderful to me that it actually works for them.  When you write down something like that there is always the worry that it has nothing to do with the plan.  Somehow it is just you and your genetics or your work ethic or pure chance tipping those scales.  So – congratulations to Matt for putting in the work and reaping the rewards.  Welcome to Boston.  This book continues to have legs, especially in April for obvious reasons, in both the e-book and audio book form.  I’m thrilled to help people direct their energy and strength in a way that enables their goals.  It’s very fulfilling.  I am going to look into spinning up a webinar course version of it where I would step through the chapters over 12 or 13 weeks in a live webinar.  If that’s something you’re interested in let me know.  I’ll try to put the registration up on qualifyforboston.com – which I own shortly.  Should be fun and I’ll learn something and help some folks.  I’m not a webinar rookie.  I do them for work many times.  If you’ve listened to this for a awhile you might have heard me talking about giving presentations, or presentation skills or such.  It’s one of the things I’ve worked on my entire career.  I think I’m up to a B+ level now.  I gave a presentation this week in Boston this week at a startup conference. It was a room with maybe 100 souls in it.  It was a blast!  I had a 5-minute slot to give a pitch and demo.  It used to be that I would be flop sweating having to stand up in front of a room but I love it now.  If you prepare well and practice your craft you can turn that nervous energy into performance energy. I met a bunch of cool startups too.  At least one I’m going to get on the podcast.  It’s a sensor garment that you wear and it tracks all your vitals and your haptic response.  I’m definitely going to wear test that thing.  I’m 16 days into my 5 at 5 project.  This project is where I get up at 5 AM and run 5 miles every day.  I write a quick blog about it, daily, with a photo, if you want to follow along and see what’s rattling around in my brain.  It’s over at my RunRunLive website.  It’s fun. I take Buddy the old wonder dog with me for the first 2 miles on the trails then I go back out for another loop to make up the 5.  He seems to be handling it well.  On the weekends I still get out but I freelance a bit, throwing in some longer runs with Ryan on Sunday. I’m doing as much trails as possible. For Section one and section two today we are going to give you my Kettletown 50K race report.  It was, of course, close to 20 minutes long, so I spilt it into two pieces and bookended the interview with it.  Like a serial, right?  Build some tension and anticipation, right?   I read too much.  Really.  When you read too much the words start to seep out of your brain like coffee through the seams of a carboard cup.  They find their way out.  On with the show! … I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported.  What does that mean? It means you don’t have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad.  As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food.  We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special